Comments on: I Am Removing the Name of My University From This Blog

By: Russia

Russia — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:00:35 +0000

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By: Reflections on the DSM Process and Academic Freedom | Before You Take That Pill

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:02:10 +0000

[...] me to shut up (not counting the people in my personal life): the VA, my university (that which cannot be named here) and academic psychiatry. To whit, I am supposed to get approval to talk to the press from my local [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:38:49 +0000

I wish there were more psychiatrists like you.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:41:03 +0000

Well, maybe there is a great financial opportunity here. Instead of morally informing the public of the undisclosed dangers of many drugs, you could become one of “them” who will write any medical opinion required to help generate income for one’s self, their employing university and the pharmaceutical industry.

Then, when someone nails you for your undisclosed conflicts of interest of working for a university known to turn a blind eye to the antics of “them”, you could claim that Emory forced you do it. Said you absolutely could not disclose that you are a professor affiliated with Emory and “them”.

Teflon, Baby. Easy money and scott free on ethical disclosures. (but, you may not be able to sleep at night without medications)

In reality, I have seen Emory leaders do some dumb things with regards to ethics in science and medicine, while having very close ties and much influence over the CDC. But, I think this one might just take the cake for glaringly obvious conflicted interests. They should have just ask you to add a disclaimer stating that your opinions are not necessarily that of Emory’s.

By: Matthew Holford

Matthew Holford — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:28:02 +0000

I’m puzzling over this, in my usual way… My first impulse is to write that it’s not unusual for a person to seek to stifle a critical voice, counterproductive though that approach is. In this way, the “problem” (which is the thing complained of), transforms into the person doing the complaining, instead (but only in the reality of the person doing the stifling). Clever, huh? Rather like GSK, John Buse and Avandia-gate: the immediate response from Monty Burns and his henchmen (I’m referring to Monty’s fellow executives, for the avoidance of any and all possible doubt), was to shut Buse up. “Less than stellar!..” The Senate Finance Committee’s report still makes me laugh!

Anyway, back to the point… When people have inadequate communication skills, the threat (implicit, or otherwise), of violence or ostracization is often used as a tool to gain obedience where a mutually satisfactory outcome is beyond the intellect of the person doing the threatening, I’ve noticed. Remember this, Doug: it’s not your colleagues’ approval that you need, for personal validation – it’s your clients’. And when you can observe for yourself that what you are doing is having a positive effect, then that is all the validation that you need.

Matt

By: Psychiatrists Attacking Psychiatrists For Blogging On Disclosure Controversies | Mental Health Blogs

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:35:10 +0000

[...] problems and that seems to have PO’d some at that school who then used a long-ago Bremner post (part serious, part satirical) about my smoking and losing my housing over the same to demand that [...]

By: Bob Fiddaman

Bob Fiddaman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:53:29 +0000

Doug,

I must confess I haven’t visited your site for a while now. I was just alerted to this post via Stephany’s blog, Soulful Sepulcher.

I find this stifling of your voice from Emory astonishing. Even more so that some cock would take the time to complain.

You have obviously hit a nerve and they have responded with the usual threat that these draconian societies seem to always issue when faced with someone who actually has a pair of extraordinary large testicles [females, substitute 'testicles' for 'courage']

I’ve not seen the letter you wrote to Phil Dawdy but reading through the comments, I understand it was satirical.

You and I never really got off on the right foot but I’m big enough to accept that my initial judgement of you was wrong. Your writing since has proved this.

With regard to the smoking debate, I’ve just learned of a mental health institution in Canada that imposed a smoking ban on its staff and ‘residents’ back in 2003. As a substitute for cravings, the institution handed out Zyban, which is basically Wellbutrin, an antidepressant. One couldn’t write better satire! [http://fiddaman.blogspot.com/2009/06/penetanguishine-preamble.html]

Keep doing what you are doing Doug. You are only irking the ones who have difficulty accepting their own guilt. That’s worth a 21 gun salute in my book.

Fid

By: Amy Philo

Amy Philo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:42:20 +0000

What we should do is:
1) ban smoking every where
2) ban caffeine
3) replace nicotene patches and Seattle’s Starbucks with Adderall in the water supply; and
4) Pass a constitutional amendment denying free speech to anyone not working for pharma or who has a religion other than – wait which religions are ok again?

SO SMOKING IS OUT but Chantix is in…

By: DSM-V Shadow Team: Retaliations & Beware of Consequences | Before You Take That Pill

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:23:26 +0000

[...] letters sent to the Dean of my university complaining about another post that led them to ask that my university’s name be removed from this blog with which I complied, or the threats to go to the state medical [...]

By: Stephany

Stephany — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:43:11 +0000

The more I think about it the more it pisses me off! sorry, but true! You can write anything you want, this is your personal blog, and you happen to work there, so be it.

It’s ridiculous that a person would go to such lengths to write to the U. regarding that satirical letter you wrote for Dawdy!

But, hell I was notified by a big ass lawfirm to take down threee posts re: a woman having sex with a researcher, and when they notitified me via email they intentionally or not gave me inside court documents re: the Seroquel lawsuits! the world is weird on the internet. I’ve had to ban emails from some commenters who are so pro-drug they attack me about my daughter (who is on meds, so go figure)

Sorry for the rant! I hope Emory is reading here today (they are reading my blog!)Maybe they can ask Senator Grassley to investigate smoking in apartments in Seattle and the injustice of being evicted due to a landlord making up their own rules!